Albert delivers a fierce, captivating contemporary fantasy about a 17-year-old girl who must venture into the world behind a pitch-dark, cult-classic collection of fairy tales to save her mother.
Don\'t miss the New York Times bestselling sequel to The Hazel Wood , The Night Country , out now, or Tales from the Hinterland , coming January 12, 2021!.
To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother\'s tales began--and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.
But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her.
Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother\'s cultish fans.
Alice\'s only lead is the message her mother left behind: Stay away from the Hazel Wood.
But when Alice\'s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away--by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother\'s stories are set.
Welcome to Melissa Albert\'s The Hazel Wood -- the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about! Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice\'s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels.
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Albert delivers a fierce, captivating contemporary fantasy about a 17-year-old girl who must venture into the world behind a pitch-dark, cult-classic collection of fairy tales to save her mother
